Show va 1 V 65 am m J g f A ato mw i az N clr benn 7 t f 1 E av I 1 I 1 41 ewt C 1 I 1 I 1 v V 3 Z z I 1 L ewley ersk MR marttha IWA af 1 HA PIA place CE I 1 ld diar adli I 1 1 IV 1 1 sofr killing or cc ber air to ft cold cola mcie gloal of nf no K I 1 T say those who would I 1 take alc the ahe wretch clia st life aie I 1 LL IL NOT new torte state has had entered into il 9 af discussion as to whether a w oman gm 4 31 shall s uffer suffer death in the electric chair after conviction 9 1 of murder the same as an ordinary felon of at the other sex the woman fu the example Is mrs martha place a once respected resident of brooklyn who has just been convicted of tilling killing her stepdaughter ida the circumstances of the murder were extraordinarily brutal L mrs place edvi envious 0 u 9 of the attentions received by her stepdaughter who was 18 19 and a beautiful girl entered the lat room and smothered her with a pillow the trial was hotly contested but mrs places guilt was unquestionably established and she was sentenced to die in electric chair As soon boon as sentence was passed the discussion on the question should a woman be executed began it has continued up to such a point that almost the whole state has become involved following are some opinions expressed by public men 1 am not opposed to women omen dying in the electric chair when they commit such horrible and atrocious deeds as mrs place committed the law knows no sex 1 1 it I t may seem hardhearted hard hearted and I 1 may lack gallantry and all that but it if a woman commits murder let her suffer the consequences 1 I believe mrs places life should pay for that of her victim the law plays no favorites it is just and equitable the statutes are made for man and woman alike if either break the laws he or she should suffer the same penalty 1 I if mrs place Is sane she should s h be executed I 1 cannot see why any distinction should be made between men and women where the condemned is in full possession of the senses there Is no reason on earth why a woman should not be executed tor for a capital crime I 1 believe in no distinction of sex before the law la it if woman is guilty of murder the extreme penalty should be meted out we admire woman in her proper sphere but we abhor her when she is guilty of at such crime as murder it if woman so far forgets herself as to act criminally like a man she should be punished like a man 1 I have no sympathy for a woman who commits deliberate dellb murder augusta nack should have been executed and I 1 hope that the law will be carried out in the case of mrs place public opinion seems about equally divided on the subject but it seems safe to say with the memory of several previous cases in which women sentenced to death have been given life imprisonment instead that mrs place will be saved from execution by the governor after she ehe shall have suffered sufficiently in anticipation the woman who was cold as stone during the trial even sitting with a perpetual sneer upon her face his has completely broken town now that she has been taken to sing sing and imprisoned in the death chamber the only woman ever executed in new york state was mrs druse who with the help of her weak minded daughter mary killed her husband bill druse near richfield springs the woman was vw hanged banged at herkimer and the spectacle will never be forgotten by those who witnessed it ft mrs druse went shrieking to the gallows and the suddenness with which her screams sc r eams i 14 I 1 w VI I 1 I 1 IN V I 1 I 1 MRS ar PLACES AWS VICTIM I 1 were cut cot short chew she was van jerked into the sir was thi the most awful t thing imaginable le JOrn as bentena ed to lift life imprisonment taut but several I 1 I 1 I 1 yea years za ago 0 was pardoned 1 I 1 1 |